Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Vineet Kumar
* will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020227 05:20]: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected. > > The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different > > packages, so apt-get was unabl

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-28 Thread Colin Watson
Matthew Dalton wrote: >The only packages that gave me any grief were the KDE ones, as expected. >The newer packages had the files rearranged between the different >packages, so apt-get was unable to install packages because they were >attempting to overwrite files from other installed packages. I t

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-27 Thread will trillich
On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 03:09:55PM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote: > I also dist-upgraded my machine from Potato to Woody about two weeks > ago. However, my machine is a desktop system with heaps of apps > installed. My experiences were pretty awesome considering what I was up > against! [snip] > Th

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Matthew Dalton
dman wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: > | > | >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: > | > > | >| > | >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' > | >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Gary L. Dolan
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 03:49:50PM -0900, Greg C. Madden wrote: > On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote: > > This was posted by Dwarf on the devel list. Slighty edited for brevity. > http://www.polaris.net/~dwarf/ > > > snip > 2. Before doing the upgrade, but after an 'apt-get update', fi

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Greg C. Madden
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 07:58, Ed Lawson wrote: > > >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: > > > >| > >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' > >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running > >| Woody. :) > > > Hmm

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:32 PM 02/26/02 -0500, dman wrote: >| Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade >| Perl, then upgrade apt, dpkg, etc, and then do a dist-upgrade? Seems I >| have read that a blanket dist-upgrade from stable to testing is not as >| seamless as you suggest, but it

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Chris Jenks
At 11:58 AM 2/26/02, Ed Lawson wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first chang

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:58:41AM -0500, Ed Lawson wrote: | | >On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | > | >| | >| Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | >| and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | >| Woody.

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread Ed Lawson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | | Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' | and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running | Woody. :) Hmmm. Isn't it better to first change the sources list, then upgrade Pe

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread dman
On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 08:58:35AM -0600, David Bell wrote: | On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: | > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is | > there a simplistic way to do this with apt / dpkg? I'm a newbie, and have | > been spending my time learnin

Re: How to Upgrade from Potato to Woody?

2002-02-26 Thread David Bell
Absolutely. :) Change all references to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list to 'testing' and run apt-get update && apt-get -u dist-upgrade. You're now running Woody. :) On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 08:44, Liam Black wrote: > I'm currently running potato 2.2.19, and looking to upgrade to Woody. Is > there

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-23 Thread Iain Georgeson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What > > can I expect to find in it? > lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates > There are (important) updates for

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-23 Thread romeu
I'm upgrading from potato to woody. I already did the following steps: 1) Downloaded Woody packages (just like libstdc++2.10, kde2...), and installed it to run under potato. 2) Downloaded Woody Kernel-Source test5, and built bzImage, so I use loadlin do boot it with a dos menu. In the dos menu, I

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Moritz Schulte
Iain Georgeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I notice I don't have potato-proposed-updates in my sources.list. What > can I expect to find in it? lynx http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/potato-proposed-updates There are (important) updates for the already released version of Potato.

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Iain Georgeson
Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > Oh, you don't have the security and proposed updates enabled, the > entrys (for potato) are: > > deb http://security.debian.org/ potato/updates main contrib > deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian dists/potato-proposed-updates/ I notice I don't have

RE: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Rino Mardo
, 2000 2:29 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody > > > Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a > >woody? if it makes a differen

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-21 Thread Colin Watson
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato to a >woody? if it makes a difference, my sources.list file is: [...] >deb ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato main non-free contrib >deb-src ftp://ftp.ca.debian.org/debian/ potato m

Re: how to upgrade from potato to woody

2000-10-20 Thread Moritz Schulte
Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i'd really like to use xfree86 4.0; i might as well just upgrade the whole > system to woody. AFAIK, xfree86 isn't already official part of woody, but there are the phase2 debs... > can someone please tell me how to use apt-get to change my potato